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South Africa: Government debt

Millions of local currency · 1911–2025 · 115 observations · forecasts to 2031 · govdebt

2025
6.04 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+7.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+11.7%a year

Government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20318,508,264Forecast
20308,068,274Forecast
20297,644,132Forecast
20287,225,897Forecast
20276,808,306Forecast
20266,439,572Forecast
20256,037,821
20245,611,302
20235,142,989
20224,706,452
20214,280,647
20203,834,248
20193,155,816
20182,763,988
20172,467,402
20162,243,371

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

South Africa documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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